He's most well known for being lead designer on Gears of War, as well as working on the Unreal series (including the first Tournament). It feels like either he or a marketing firm is trying to turn him into one of those "celebrity" video game designers like Hideo Kojima or Goichi Suda, but to me at least he falls utterly flat.

Yeah, one complete flop and one game that we now realise was shoved out the door too early just so that it would see the light of day before the studio shut; it's no real surprise. I never like to see people losing their jobs, but I can't say I'm in any way surprised.